Gatton

About this course

Turf · 1700m circumference · 300m straight · clockwise

Gatton is the Lockyer Valley Turf Club's course, west of Brisbane in Queensland's market-garden country, and racing there goes back to the Farmers Cup of the eighteen-seventies. It is a turning oval with a short straight, and the Gatton Cup is its feature day.

We hold 118 of its races, where fields have averaged 9.8 runners and 1400 metres is the most common trip. M.J.Wilson has 6 wins from 13 runners here, and Diamantina Rose has won 3 of 3 starts.

Course stats

Favourite

won 43 of 118 races (36.4%)

Barrier

1-4 11.5% (462 runs)5-8 10.4% (451 runs)9+ 7.6% (249 runs)

Distances

1400m (42)1100m (33)860m (20)

Going

Good (97)Soft (18)Heavy (3)

Specialists

Diamantina Rose 3/3Red Feather Boa 2/2Captain Bull 2/2

From our own results database. Figures appear only where the sample carries them; a missing row means the data is too thin to say.